Kirk Douglas Bücher

Es war ein sonniger Nachmittag als für Kirk Douglas die Welt zusammenbrach: Schlaganfall. Mit dem Leben war er davongekommen, aber was für ein Leben. Er konnte noch verstehen, was gesprochen wurde, aber keiner verstand ihn. Der Schlaganfall hatte ihm, dem weltberühmten Schauspieler, das Wichtigste genommen - die Sprache. Er versank in schwere Depressionen und vergrub sich in seinem Bett, wie in einer Höhle. Tagelang weinte er, von Selbstmitleid geplagt, bis er beschloss, seinem Leben ein Ende zu machen und sich zu erschießen. Als er jedoch mit dem Pistolenlauf an seine Zähne schlug und vor Schmerz zurückzuckte, erwachte plötzlich sein alter Humor wieder, er musste lachen. Dann fielen ihm die Menschen ein, die er trauernd zurücklassen würde. Viele von ihnen hatten nach persönlichen Tragödien ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand genommen: Christopher Reeves, Michael J. Fox, Dudley Moore und viele andere. Alle hatten nach ihren Erkrankungen versucht, durch ihren Ruhm anderen Menschen in ähnlichen Situationen Mut zu machen und zu helfen. Das gab Kirk Douglas Kraft. Mit eiserner Disziplin lernte er wieder sprechen, selbst bei Schwierigkeiten und Rückschlägen verlor er nie seinen Humor. Heute hat Kirk Douglas seinen Schlaganfall überwunden, er erhielt den Ehren-Oscar für sein Lebenswerk und arbeitet wieder als Filmschauspieler.

Ein Vogel mit eisernen Schwingen - bk1006; Econ Verlag; Kirk Douglas; pocket_book; 1992

Shona MacInnes, a crofter's daughter, meets much prejudice when she qualifies to train as a vet--not least from handsome Ross MacMaster, also a vet. Their fiery relationship turns to love, but soon differences are revealed, and they part. Can they ever be reconciled?

Kirk Douglas reveals the drama behind the making of the legendary gladiator film Spartacus. Douglas began producing the movie in the midst of the politically charged era when Hollywood's moguls refused to hire anyone accused of Communist sympathies. In a risky move, Douglas chose Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted screenwriter, to write Spartacus. Trumbo was one of the men who had gone to prison rather than testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The source novel was written by Howard Fast while he too was in jail for defying HUAC. With the future of his young family at stake, Douglas plunged into a tumultuous production. As both producer and star, he faced explosive moments with young director Stanley Kubrick, struggles with a leading lady, and negotiations with giant personalities, Now, at 95, Douglas looks back at his audacious decisions. He made the most expensive film of its era--but more importantly, his moral courage in giving public credit to Trumbo effectively ended the Hollywood blacklist.--From publisher description.

But it's been awfully good to Danny Dennison. But Danny Dennison has been living a lie. His true identity is buried half way around the world in the ruins of a Nazi concentration camp. Danny believes his secret to be safe - until he meets Luba, a young, sensuous call girl, whose mesmerising sexuality begins to shatter his well-guarded facade.

He was born Issur Danielovitch Dempsky, the son of an illiterate rag collector. From his brutal childhood to his acting triumphs to his many fabled love affairs, Douglas recalls his life, his loves and his forty years of Hollywood fame.

Roughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their "best-before date" has long passed. In Navigating the Messy Middle, Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing a fierce and unapologetic book for and about midlife women. In this deeply validating and encouraging book, Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with compelling first-person stories. Offering purpose and meaning in a life stage that can otherwise feel out of control, Douglas pushes back against the message that women at midlife are no longer relevant and needed, highlighting the far-reaching economic, political and social impacts of these messages and providing a refreshing counter-narrative that maps out a path forward for women at midlife. Both a midlife love letter and a lament, Navigating the Messy Middle both celebrates the beauty and rages at the many injustices of this life stage and provides readers with the tools to chart their own course.

With the simple power and astonishing candor that made his 1988 autobiography, The Ragman's Son, a number one international bestseller, Kirk Douglas now shares his quest for spirituality and Jewish identity -- and his heroic fight to overcome crippling injuries and a devastating stroke. On February 13, 1991, at the age of seventy-four, Kirk Douglas, star of such major motion-picture classics as Champion, Spartacus, and Paths of Glory, was in a helicopter crash, in which two people died and he himself sustained severe back injuries. As he lay in the hospital recovering, he kept wondering: Why had two younger men died while he, who had already lived his life fully, survived? The question drove this son of a Russian-Jewish ragman to a search for his roots and on a long journey of self-discovery -- a quest not only for the meaning of life and his own relationship with God, but for his own identity as a Jew. Through the study of the Bible, Kirk Douglas found a new spirituality and purpose. His newfound faith deeply enriched his relationship with his own children and taught him -- a man who had always been famously demanding and impatient -- to listen to others and, above all, to hear his own inner voice. Told with warmth, wit, much humor, and deep passion, Climbing the Mountain is inspirational in the very best sense of the word.